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A&E:
page 9
"Merchant of Venice":
Bethel Theatre Department's fall
production opens
Sport
Soccer:
s:
page 10
Women's soccer sets new
record
Variety:
page 7
Missionary kids:
Senior Jason Sorley shares about life
as a missionary kid from Japan
Wednesday, Novembers, 1997
NEWSPAPER OF BETHEL COLLEGE
Volume 73 • Number 5
PSEO students opt
out of senior year,
'enhance' Bethel
By Opal D. Liebler
Staff Writer
With Bethel's building expansion and recent growth
mode, the number of Post Secondary Education Options
(PSEO) students increased to
79 this year, nearly double the
number of last year's PSEO
enrollment.
PSEO is a program implemented in the state of Minnesota to allow juniors and seniors, who are in the top 25
percent of their high school
class, to attend a secondary
school of their choice. The
state pays for the students'
tuition and book fees, while
the students pay for housing
and food costs. The state
leaves the standards of admittance up to the individual
schools. At Bethel, only students in their senior year of
high school and in the top 25
percent of their class are considered for admission.
While Bethel's main criteria is academics, they must
also look at each student's po
tential for leadership and their
spirituality. Jay Fedje, Associate Director of Admissions,
said the students are evaluated
at how well-rounded they are
as individuals and how well
they fit the Bethel mode.
A large number of students
apply each year to be admitted as PSEO; however, Bethel
can only admit a certain number of students. This cap is
determined early on by the
admissions department by es-
"Post Secondary Option
students have done well
in high school and
they've earned that year;
and the faculty love the
outstanding students."
Jay Fedje
Associate Director of
Admissions
timating the number of freshmen who will be enrolling the
following year and determin-
PSEO
continued on page 2
Classrooms are not
conducive to learning
By Aaron Clark
Staff Writer
Classroom situations are an
increasing problem at Bethel
that is now being addressed.
Philosophy Professor Stan
Anderson has a vision to
change the classrooms at
Bethel to be more conducive to
"What I'm going to do is
make a little noise and try
to make the classrooms a
little bit higher of a
priority than in the past."
Stan Anderson
Philosophy Professor
learning.
According to Anderson,
three major classroom problems have resulted as Bethel's
student population has increased in the past several
years.
The first problem that
Anderson sees is that some of
the classrooms are too noisy
and therefore detrimental to
learning. Because of its size,
Fine Arts (FA) 426 is one example of a classroom where
students who sit in the back often have trouble hearing the
professor who is lecturing
from the front. Academic Center (AC) 330, 331, 332 and FA
403 are other examples of
rooms with noise problems.
According to Anderson, this
problem can be taken care of
Classroom
continued on page 2
Campolo challenges students
By Chad Harris
Contributing Writer
Comical, confrontational, controversial...this is
Dr. Tony Campolo. In his
chapel address on Oct. 21,
Campolo challenged
Bethel students to change
institutions and make their
lives count.
Students took Campolo's
message to heart. "What
impacted me the most is
we can all make a difference," said sophomore
Valerie Simonson.
"Going out and changing the world is exactly
what Jesus wants us to do,"
said junior Candice Bacon.
Students packed the
Great Hall to hear
Campolo speak. Associate
Professor of Sociology
Michael Emerson believes
Campolo is popular with
Clarion/ Photo by Matt Lang
Tony Campolo speaks to
students and community
members at Bethel Seminary.
college students not only because he has "great things to
say" but because of "the way
he says it." Greg Bourgond,
Associate Academic Dean
of Students at Bethel Seminary, added that Campolo
"has the ability to touch the
heart strings of Gen-Xers...
Tony is God's provoker,
who causes people to rethink their faith."
Campolo has a long list
of credentials. He is professor of sociology and director of urban studies at Eastern College in St. Davids,
Penn.; an advisor to President Clinton on urban renewal issues; associate pastor at Mt. Carmel Baptist
Church in West Philadelphia; founder and president
of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of
Education—an organization involved in developing
programs in third world
Campolo
continued on page 2
Racquetball court repair bounced
By Dan linger
Staff Writer
Bethel's racquetball courts
located across from the laundry room in the Robertson
Center have been in disrepair
for over three years. The two
courts are now used as storage
space.
The unusable court's walls
are peeling and the floors are
warped. A faulty sump pump
flooded the courts, destroying
the floors and damaging the
plaster walls. The courts were
damaged so badly that the repairs have been put off for
over three years now. There
are no plans to fix the racquetball courts Lit the near future.
In order to make them usable
again, both the floors and
walls would have to be replaced.
It may sound like a simple
process: replace the floors and
walls, then the courts will be
in working order again. However, the problem is not what
has to be done, it is the cost to
have the project completed.
According to Craig Hjelli, Director of Physical Plant and
Campus Planning, the funding to fix the courts just isn't
available. When the courts
were ruined, Bethel received
an insurance settlement of
$10,000. But, according to
Hjelli, the cost of repairing the
courts is three or four times
that amount.
A possible reason the courts
have not been fixed lies in determining whether institutional money should be spent
on repairing the racquetball
courts or on academic material.
Students have a mixture of
reactions concerning tire disre
pair of the courts. "As long as
tuition doesn't go up, I'd like
to have them fixed," said
freshman Jon Kodet. "Racquetball is nice for people who
don't play on team sports, because it is one of those sports
where even if you only have
half an hour, you can go down
and get a game in quick."
"I've attended public colleges previously, and the facilities there are much better compared to Bethel," said senior
Mark McCutcheon. "The ratio
between tuition and facilities
is incredibly disproportionate
[at Bethel]."
Clarion/ Photo by Matt Lang
Pock marks riddle the walls of the decrepit racquetball courts
hidden in the halls of the Robertson Center's second floor.

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A&E:
page 9
"Merchant of Venice":
Bethel Theatre Department's fall
production opens
Sport
Soccer:
s:
page 10
Women's soccer sets new
record
Variety:
page 7
Missionary kids:
Senior Jason Sorley shares about life
as a missionary kid from Japan
Wednesday, Novembers, 1997
NEWSPAPER OF BETHEL COLLEGE
Volume 73 • Number 5
PSEO students opt
out of senior year,
'enhance' Bethel
By Opal D. Liebler
Staff Writer
With Bethel's building expansion and recent growth
mode, the number of Post Secondary Education Options
(PSEO) students increased to
79 this year, nearly double the
number of last year's PSEO
enrollment.
PSEO is a program implemented in the state of Minnesota to allow juniors and seniors, who are in the top 25
percent of their high school
class, to attend a secondary
school of their choice. The
state pays for the students'
tuition and book fees, while
the students pay for housing
and food costs. The state
leaves the standards of admittance up to the individual
schools. At Bethel, only students in their senior year of
high school and in the top 25
percent of their class are considered for admission.
While Bethel's main criteria is academics, they must
also look at each student's po
tential for leadership and their
spirituality. Jay Fedje, Associate Director of Admissions,
said the students are evaluated
at how well-rounded they are
as individuals and how well
they fit the Bethel mode.
A large number of students
apply each year to be admitted as PSEO; however, Bethel
can only admit a certain number of students. This cap is
determined early on by the
admissions department by es-
"Post Secondary Option
students have done well
in high school and
they've earned that year;
and the faculty love the
outstanding students."
Jay Fedje
Associate Director of
Admissions
timating the number of freshmen who will be enrolling the
following year and determin-
PSEO
continued on page 2
Classrooms are not
conducive to learning
By Aaron Clark
Staff Writer
Classroom situations are an
increasing problem at Bethel
that is now being addressed.
Philosophy Professor Stan
Anderson has a vision to
change the classrooms at
Bethel to be more conducive to
"What I'm going to do is
make a little noise and try
to make the classrooms a
little bit higher of a
priority than in the past."
Stan Anderson
Philosophy Professor
learning.
According to Anderson,
three major classroom problems have resulted as Bethel's
student population has increased in the past several
years.
The first problem that
Anderson sees is that some of
the classrooms are too noisy
and therefore detrimental to
learning. Because of its size,
Fine Arts (FA) 426 is one example of a classroom where
students who sit in the back often have trouble hearing the
professor who is lecturing
from the front. Academic Center (AC) 330, 331, 332 and FA
403 are other examples of
rooms with noise problems.
According to Anderson, this
problem can be taken care of
Classroom
continued on page 2
Campolo challenges students
By Chad Harris
Contributing Writer
Comical, confrontational, controversial...this is
Dr. Tony Campolo. In his
chapel address on Oct. 21,
Campolo challenged
Bethel students to change
institutions and make their
lives count.
Students took Campolo's
message to heart. "What
impacted me the most is
we can all make a difference," said sophomore
Valerie Simonson.
"Going out and changing the world is exactly
what Jesus wants us to do,"
said junior Candice Bacon.
Students packed the
Great Hall to hear
Campolo speak. Associate
Professor of Sociology
Michael Emerson believes
Campolo is popular with
Clarion/ Photo by Matt Lang
Tony Campolo speaks to
students and community
members at Bethel Seminary.
college students not only because he has "great things to
say" but because of "the way
he says it." Greg Bourgond,
Associate Academic Dean
of Students at Bethel Seminary, added that Campolo
"has the ability to touch the
heart strings of Gen-Xers...
Tony is God's provoker,
who causes people to rethink their faith."
Campolo has a long list
of credentials. He is professor of sociology and director of urban studies at Eastern College in St. Davids,
Penn.; an advisor to President Clinton on urban renewal issues; associate pastor at Mt. Carmel Baptist
Church in West Philadelphia; founder and president
of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of
Education—an organization involved in developing
programs in third world
Campolo
continued on page 2
Racquetball court repair bounced
By Dan linger
Staff Writer
Bethel's racquetball courts
located across from the laundry room in the Robertson
Center have been in disrepair
for over three years. The two
courts are now used as storage
space.
The unusable court's walls
are peeling and the floors are
warped. A faulty sump pump
flooded the courts, destroying
the floors and damaging the
plaster walls. The courts were
damaged so badly that the repairs have been put off for
over three years now. There
are no plans to fix the racquetball courts Lit the near future.
In order to make them usable
again, both the floors and
walls would have to be replaced.
It may sound like a simple
process: replace the floors and
walls, then the courts will be
in working order again. However, the problem is not what
has to be done, it is the cost to
have the project completed.
According to Craig Hjelli, Director of Physical Plant and
Campus Planning, the funding to fix the courts just isn't
available. When the courts
were ruined, Bethel received
an insurance settlement of
$10,000. But, according to
Hjelli, the cost of repairing the
courts is three or four times
that amount.
A possible reason the courts
have not been fixed lies in determining whether institutional money should be spent
on repairing the racquetball
courts or on academic material.
Students have a mixture of
reactions concerning tire disre
pair of the courts. "As long as
tuition doesn't go up, I'd like
to have them fixed," said
freshman Jon Kodet. "Racquetball is nice for people who
don't play on team sports, because it is one of those sports
where even if you only have
half an hour, you can go down
and get a game in quick."
"I've attended public colleges previously, and the facilities there are much better compared to Bethel," said senior
Mark McCutcheon. "The ratio
between tuition and facilities
is incredibly disproportionate
[at Bethel]."
Clarion/ Photo by Matt Lang
Pock marks riddle the walls of the decrepit racquetball courts
hidden in the halls of the Robertson Center's second floor.